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4D Phone Assembly

MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is experimenting with ‘4D’ methods of ‘programming’ materials to self-construct. In this experiment, researchers outfit phone parts with magnets of varying polarity and put them in a tumbler. Eventually the parts assemble, creating functional cell phones.

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Updated: 4:57 PM CDT Aug 25, 2016

4D Phone Assembly

MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is experimenting with ‘4D’ methods of ‘programming’ materials to self-construct. In this experiment, researchers outfit phone parts with magnets of varying polarity and put them in a tumbler. Eventually the parts assemble, creating functional cell phones.

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MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is experimenting with ‘4D’ methods of ‘programming’ materials to self-construct. In this experiment, researchers outfit phone parts with magnets of varying polarity and put them in a tumbler. Eventually the parts assemble, creating functional cell phones.